Abstract
The article explores the experience of interacting with newly purchased clothes to describe the practices by which relationships are formed with our everyday clothes, the ones that we later consider part of our wardrobe. The process of constituting a phenomenon of “our own” clothing is based on the phenomenology of perception, the affect theory, and the responses of fifteen focus group participants who recalled stories about newly acquired garments. The formation of attachment relationships can be divided into two stages: pre-wearing interaction, which may include choosing the right place in the wardrobe, washing, fitting or even alteration, trying on and searching for combinations with other clothes in the wardrobe; and the wearing process itself, in which the formation of relationships with clothing is influenced both by its material qualities – length, width, density and details, and our impression of the process, mediated not only by bodily sensations, but by the image of the body and comments about it.
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